We hope that this
newsletter finds you well,
wrapped up against the crazy winds, and as chuffed as we are to have been
even
a tiny part of the fabulous London
Lion Bescarfing Event.

This week’s meeting was on the pirate-flavoured
Queen Mary and saw many a tot of rum drunk to warm the cockles (okay,
maybe a
beer or glass of wine), much knitting on the decks, no knitted eye
patches
at
all, and the occasional shocked expression as a speedboat went by and we
all
remembered we were on a boat.

Lion Scarf Tales

In Lion Scarf
news
fantastically huge
success! We arrived in the Square at 10am and at 12.30 we left with four
grateful lions roaring their farewells. It was sooo much fun, the Lion
Ladies swarmed
about the fascinated crowds letting them know what the madness was about
and
collecting for Cancer Research, and our Lion Lads did us proud scaling
the
beasts to help Laura and myself bescarf them.

Cameras flashed,
the press snapped away,
the lions got toasty, and a TV crew even arrived to film the chaos. We
saw
so
many knitting comrades beneath the lions, so thanks to everyone for
coming
and
we hope you were able to pick out your part from in one of the many photos.

Sorry if any of
you missed it, but we have
plans to maybe exhibit the scarves and their stories somewhere in the
depths of
London, before they are won by four lucky sponsors (if anyone knows
anyone
who
might be able to help us out with that one we would be very grateful).
Also let
us know if our warm lions pop up in any press (they never tell
us!)

The sponsor
site and draw will stay open
for a little while, so anyone can still donate to the Lion
Scarf Fund and win a piece of London history (or some of the fab
broomstick needles and yarn from
the pics).

Also we will keep
updating the blog with Lion Scarf comings and goings, of
course.

Stitch and Treading
the Boards (nearly)

Details of the
next meeting:

Next meeting
finds
us lah-dee-dahhing it up in the Long Bar of the National
Theatre. According to internet sources there will be a South American
folk
and
Afro-Colombian trio rocking out (acoustically, of course) just across
from
the
bar. On top of all that we have been promised a visit from Barwell
Alpacas'
leading lady, with some of her fabulous yarn. So you can soak up a bit of
culture, laugh in a slightly horsey manner, and shock people with your
knitting-in-public bravado.

TUESDAY
27th MarchTime:
From 6 PMVenue:
National Theatre
The Long Bar (in the main foyer)
South Bank
London
SE1 9PX

So you finish a
project, you wear it every
day for a year, you print flyers featuring a photo of it and hand them
out
at
your local supermarket, you get your loved one to have a tattoo of it
somewhere
prominent. But that just isn’t enough! You want to show the world
the fabulousness
you have created you’re your sticks and string!

Well, now you can
show the entire crafty
world of the internet:

Craftster.com Forum
– Log in and show the world. They have a knitting section
(featuring
knitalongs,
where you can say “I made this better than you. So
ner!”, loads of other crafty
threads, and even an S&B thread for those of you who have completed
something from that funky little tome and want to share.

Stitch and As If You Didn’t Have Enough Free
Patterns and Knitting Info

Daily Knitter
– sign up to them for free patterns (those two magic words), yarn
reviews (genius idea), and loads of knitting stuff and things.

Wendy
Knits - Wendy Knits. She really does. And she is really good at it
too. A site with
1000000000 (that is an approximate number) patterns and loads of links to
knitting net goodness.

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That is all we are going to unravel for you
this week. Let us know if you dig up any internet knitting treasure, see
you at
the Stitch and Craft show at Olympia
this weekend if you are coming along, and feel free to drop in on the message
board if you feel alone in a knittingless void of
terrorrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Thanks again for all your Lion Scarf support. New
People of the Knit, welcome to the mailing list. We hope you can make it
to a meeting soon.